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Is Back-to-School Shopping Already Doomed?

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , on July 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

The calendar only reads July 21 but should retailers be concerned that the back-to-school shopping season this year is going to be a bust?  Maybe so. A survey by the National Retail Federation (NRF), conducted by BIGresearch earlier this month, reveals that consumers will likely reign in spending on school supplies in 2011–families with kids [...]

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Jewelry Expected to be a Top Item this Holiday Season

Posted in Ecommerce, Online Shopping, Retail, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , on October 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

It’s hard to believe, but Christmas is only about 65 days away.   As such, it’s not surprising that we’re already starting to see news on what items could be the most sought-after this holiday shopping season. Granted, year to year, popular product categories for the holidays tend to stay relatively the same—electronics, books, clothing, [...]

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Shop.Org Makes Leadership Appointments

Posted in General News / Technology, tagged , , , , on September 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Shop.org, the digital retail division of the National Retail Federation (NRF), has announced the appointment of Joan Broughton as interim executive director and has also elected 11 new members to its board of directors. Broughton replaces Scott Silverman, who left Shop.org in August to start a virtual goods retailing outfit.  Silverman had held the executive [...]

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NRF Predicts a 10 Percent Bump in Back-to-School Shopping

Posted in Ecommerce, Online Shopping, Retail, tagged , , , on July 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

We love wrapping up the week with an item that offers some hope and good news for retailers. And this certainly qualifies. The National Retail Federation is projecting that families will spend about 10 percent more on back-to-school items this year than they did in 2009.  Such an increase could push the industry’s back-to-school sales [...]

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Merchant Tips: Visa Clarifies Card Security Measures for Merchants

Posted in Ecommerce, Merchant Tips, tagged , , , , , , , on July 15, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Visa, far and away the most popular credit card choice for consumers, yesterday clarified its regulations governing how retailers collect and store customer account information for post-transaction disputes in a move that could help merchants save both time and money. The central item in the clarification, which applies to both online merchants and traditional brick [...]

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Shop.Org to Launch Think Tank

Posted in Ecommerce, General News / Technology, Online Shopping, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on June 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

The retail industry has undergone a tremendous amount of change since the advent of e-commerce and online shopping.  Even in the year and a half or so since we started Junkie, we’ve seen the introduction of many new technologies and expanded online offerings that have had a huge impact on the way traditional brick and [...]

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Merchant Resources: 5 Ecommerce Blogs & News Sites You Should Follow

Posted in Ecommerce, Merchant Tips, tagged , , , , , , on April 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Ecommerce Junkie (@EcommerceJunkie) has grown by leaps and bounds over the past year, accumulating more and more regular readers, establishing an active Twitter feed for our news headlines and engaging our audience on all issues relevant to e-commerce in the comments area of these posts.  We don’t want to toot our own horn too much [...]

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Social Media Integration a Growing Priority for Many Retailers

Posted in Facebook Commerce, Merchant Tips, tagged , , , , , , on April 22, 2010 | 4 Comments »

We’ve spent quite a bit of time and content this year devoted to covering the growing trend of retailers integrating social media into their overall e-commerce operations, and for good reason. More and more social networking tools and applications are emerging all the time that provide a vast array of expansion possibilities to merchants, both [...]

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Spring is Back, and So Are Retail Sales!

Posted in General News / Technology, Retail, tagged , , , , , , on April 7, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Retailers will be rolling out data on their March sales figures later this week and it looks like the early Easter holiday and arrival of spring made it a very good month for most of them according the projections. The International Council of Shopping Centers, which we reference fairly often when it comes to retail [...]

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National Retail Federation Tabs Shay for Leadership Position

Posted in Retail, tagged , , , on March 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Matt Shay has been named the new president and CEO of the National Retail Federation. Shay replaces longtime NRF head Tracy Mullin, who is retiring after three decades with the NRF, the retail industry’s lobbying and advocacy arm in Washington, D.C.  His tenure starts May 10. Shay most recently served as president and CEO of [...]

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